Thought Provoking Quotes
Tom Robbins
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
1496Mohammed Ali Bapir
Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion.
3688 Carolee Dean
Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.
1955 Isabella Poretsis
All humans are alike and all humans are equal. It is just the perception of the eye that sees any different.
3244 Jessica Park
Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.
1741 Helen Exley
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life.
2855 Tom Robbins
Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.
1601 Brennan Manning
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
4008 Richard Bach
We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.
1393 Sun Tzu
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
3206 Epictetus
When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
1049 Lailah Gifty Akita
If you know what you want and persistently capture the thought, you will attract it to you.
2536 E.A. Bucchianeri
If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.
4990 John Green
He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.
1651 E.A. Bucchianeri
Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.
1973 E.A. Bucchianeri
If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.
4860 Cindy Ann Peterson
We are more advanced technologically than ever before. However, technology, in many respects, is leading to the decline of conversation.
4311 Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
the greatest footprint one can ever leave on earth is the footprint of good deeds. Living to leave a great mark on the minds of people before leaving
3513 Lailah Gifty Akita
What you think of yourself is more important than what others think.
2639 Mark W. Boyer
Exactly what good are our eyes if they are not willing to see what's right before us?
2258 Brian Selznick
I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.
2201 Carl Sagan
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
1407 Ann Druyan
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
2149 Carl Sagan
Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.
1986 Castle Noble
Woman study loving him his whole life; Man study loving well, your whole wife
3773 Zack Love
I had always been an atheist until I met Lenny. He was too wonderously complex and good for there to be no benevolent and intelligent force behind our marvelous cosmos. Lenny gave me the actual proof my fiercely skeptical mind had always demanded. Not some logical, 37-step proof of God's existence. It was a personal proof. And it was irrefutable.
1188 Jori Sams
All my biggest failures began with the smallest compromises.
4006 Scott Westerfeld
That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.
2854 Max Andrew Dubinsky
Yet people are still showing up to lift their hands after all these years even though the church is flawed and broken and beautiful and has a shameful, ugly side to it that I'll bet it wishes it didn't have and repeatedly tries to hide.
Just like me.
Just like you.
Just like always.
4840 Tom Robbins
There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.
4963 Cindy Ann Peterson
The art of civil conversation begins at birth. Then goes from the dinner table to the schoolroom, to interaction among friends, to the work place, and on to other places where all manner of social interactions are required.
1912 Andrei Tarkovsky
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
2011 Thomas Vazhakunnathu
Our Universe is a multidimensional one; every individual life unit consciously functions in a particular vibratory level (dimension or density) but unconsciously/ subconsciously functions in and through all the other levels, and as the awareness increases it moves to the conscious existence of the next immediate level.
3515 Thomas Vazhakunnathu
Spirit does not belong to any particular religion because It has nothing to do with any religion and humanity cannot claim any exclusivity to It because we and our planet is nothing but a drop in the ocean of this endless Universe.
2386 Alan McCluskey
Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.
1521 Bill Watterson
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
1967 C. Nzingha Smith
Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision.
1948 Julie Otsuka
Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.
4878 Donald Thomas
The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'.
2284 Isvari
Facts you can bend. Memories are much stronger things.
1814 Susan May Warren
If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.
2176 Tom Franklin
Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.
1529 Chuck Palahniuk
The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
2565 Haruki Murakami
It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
1472 Nina Guilbeau
Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.
2634 Faisalfairuh
It just takes one serious thought to change a person, either to one he always wanted to be or into one he never wished to be.
2853 Zack Love
Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to work. I probably should have done this a long time ago.
4084 Jamaica Kincaid
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won’t accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy’ time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.
1562 Bradley Bowman
Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it
4063 Buffi Neal
At what point in life should we stop searching for a better one?
3394 Buffi Neal
Is a dream the ultimate freedom, or the ultimate prison?
3714 Aldous Huxley
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
3054 Monica Ali
while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.
1306 Lailah Gifty Akita
Those who educate us can never be forgotten. Wherever we are, they will always be in our heart and mind.
2073 F. Scott Fitzgerald
And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.
1803 Bernard Kelvin Clive
Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide
1815 Austin Kleon
Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.
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